2017 NRL.com Fantasy thread part 43

wolfking wrote:

I just don't think that's been updated since Monday.

Yeah a bit lazy from Rev that one

my tv broke wrote:

yeah i'm looking for a cheap cash out who plays 15 and 18. hoping for Scott but havent heard from him in a while. Probably also likely that Young T would be first to come into the backline.

Good point mate re Young T.

SI wrote:I understand it depends partly on team make up and strategy, but if you had a gun to your head and were told you had to trade one of the following, who would you sell Fanatics:

Smith or Fifita?

Trade Fifita, Not a lot of decent Hookers available and if you don't have Graham then he is a great fill in/keeper

Just selected my team for the week and have 17 available, only problem is I can't loophole because I have no HKR's and will rely on a A/E. Damn.

So as a warning to others, just be careful a similar thing doesn't happen to you

SI wrote:I understand it depends partly on team make up and strategy, but if you had a gun to your head and were told you had to trade one of the following, who would you sell Fanatics:

Smith or Fifita?

If I had the trades I would probably sell both, but I don't and I am shipping Fifita. Not sure why, maybe because Cam is GOD (and trading him out feels wrong) and I am a QUEENSLANDER.....Fifita missing 3 of the next 4 just feels too hard to carry. I do plan on bringing him back in Round 16 though, which most will think is a bit odd but I need to make some positions up and desperate times call for desperate measures.

Revraiser wrote:A fox sports article has Brown as 'ribs, indefinite' under outs as well. The 'pressure gauge' section.

Foxsports reported Gurgess would miss round 12 as part of 4 game ban. They are clueless

does the warriors carrying afoa on the bench scare any thompson/mannering owners? unless he plays in the front row, then you would assume he takes minutes off one of these 2 guys.

anyway, not much i can do about it as a thompson owner

bluetige wrote:Just selected my team for the week and have 17 available, only problem is I can't loophole because I have no HKR's and will rely on a A/E. Damn.

So as a warning to others, just be careful a similar thing doesn't happen to you

I'm planning on getting Cody next week who doesn't play just so I can loophole

think i've settled on Norman -> SJ, Lamb -> Nu, Wallace -> Graham, give's me a 15 man team of:

Kaysa
Graham, Brown, Ese
Manners, (C)richton, Surgess, Elliot
SJ, Frawley, Niko, Nu
Cotric, Fui
RTS

leaves me with 17 for all the mini bye rounds, 9 for 15 and 11 for 18, but i'll start working on those with Niko -> Munster, CHN -> Lolo next week

For people currently with Smith and Mcinnes, are you just going to ride the bye period out?

I would recommend people have a look at the buy sell hold videos fox sports release pretty quickly guys

they have uploaded the unedited version with all the takes unedited

pretty funny shit watching sangster

With the Smith Fifita debate, it might help to have a look at whos the next best player you can bring in....for example if you have all the gun Frf/2RFs like Surgess Gallen then the next best player could be a Hok.

itsJay wrote:

Unless you can use the ~$100k straight away I don't think he is. Hampton will be playing in bye rounds R15 and R19 where you will most likely need him. If you don't need him in R19 then its only one extra bye round that Nu gets.
Hampton can also fill in for R13 and R16 if you are short there.
Another option is to hang onto Hampton for now and flick him out for a different cashout in R18.

Hampton's BE is 18 now and he would have scored a 23 without that try last round. Not to mention Granville's yet to get back to full fitness where Hampton will play even less minutes so he'd lose too much cash to be worth keeping around that long.

bluetige wrote:Just selected my team for the week and have 17 available, only problem is I can't loophole because I have no HKR's and will rely on a A/E. Damn.

So as a warning to others, just be careful a similar thing doesn't happen to you

I asked about this question on NRL.com and they said if you're able to field 17 then it doesn't really matter about the loophole which is a fair point I guess. Just pick a captain you can back to go well and let it all play out

I Need to part with either Smith or McCullough this week. Which one should I dump?

Fortitude wrote:For people currently with Smith and Mcinnes, are you just going to ride the bye period out?

I was planning on replacing Smith with McCulloch this round as a keeper but obviously that plan is out the window and I will most likely ride it out with Smith/McInnes.

Fraser wrote:I Need to part with either Smith or McCullough this week. Which one should I dump?

I think that's a tougher proposition than Smith v Fifita. I would lean towards selling Macca as it looks like K-Nik will now be a bench hooker & take some of his minutes & Macca needs to play 80 mins to score well. Also earlier in the season when RTS got knocked out he missed 2 weeks & Macca's looked worse than RTS' so Macca could be in the same position.

Fraser wrote:I Need to part with either Smith or McCullough this week. Which one should I dump?

Macca could lose minutes to Nikorima as Milf/Hunt will be the preferred halves combo obviously and Niko has to have something to do.

Fortitude wrote:For people currently with Smith and Mcinnes, are you just going to ride the bye period out?

Ride it out
Smith isn't worth a trade out IMO and I'm not moving McInnes unless I have to

Contemplating going Fifita -> Tolman this week, with the plan of trading straight back in round 19. Plays three extra bye rounds but costs me two trades. Two trades for roughly 75 points a trade? Already have the standard Gallen, Surgess, Crichton and Brown.